Wet fuel briquettes made from human waste and sawdust are dried outside at the Nakuru Water and Sanitation Services Company plant in Nakuru, Kenya, April 8, 2017. TRF/ Be

 
by Benson Rioba | Thomson Reuters Foundation
Friday, 12 May 2017 13:38 GMT

Using human waste to make fuel briquettes tackles sanitation and health problems – and they even smell sweetBy Benson Rioba

NAKURU, Kenya, May 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Poultry farmer Josephine Mbithe used to get up three times a night to add charcoal to her stove just to keep her newborn chicks warm. But since she started using fuel briquettes made with human waste, the stove burns all night, leaving her to sleep in peace.

Mbithe is one of many Nakuru residents who have embraced the briquettes manufactured from human poo and sawdust collected around the town, northwest of Nairobi, in the Great Rift Valley. Tiếp tục đọc “Human poo transformed into clean fuel for Kenya’s urban poor” →